High Country was laid out on the ridge above the North Ranch Country Club as estate lots of about two acres, sold to owners who built individually. The recorded sales date the houses from 1991 to 2024, and the two newest — an 11,000-square-foot single-story house on Dawn Meadow Street finished in 2023 and an 8,355-square-foot house on Collingswood Court finished in 2024 — are the two most expensive sales in the tract’s record.

The developer of the subdivision is not confirmed in any source Gary Jacobs has been able to verify. What the record shows is a tract of about 66 parcels of 1.6 to 2.6 acres, with houses of 4,860 to 13,000 square feet, a greenbelt carried as the common amenity and a fee that listings report at $120 to $144 a month, with $518 a quarter on the October 2024 sale and on the most recent, in July 2026.

Every house is individually designed. The top of the record is $11,150,000 on Dawn Meadow Street in April 2024 for the 11,000-square-foot single-story house built in 2023 on 2.4 acres, and $8,250,000 on Collingswood Court in October 2024 for the 8,355-square-foot house built the same year. The bottom is $3,250,000 twice on Crown Ridge Court: a 13,000-square-foot seven-bedroom from 1991 in August 2020, and a 6,440-square-foot six-bedroom from 1991 in April 2023. The gap between the two ends is the gap between a 1991 house and a new one, on the same ridge.

No plan sheet for High Country is in the Conejo Simi Moorpark Association of Realtors archive that this guide series draws on, so there is no drawing to reproduce. The sale record shows homes of 4,860 to 13,000 square feet, median 7,727, with six bedrooms in three of the six, four in one, five in one, and two of the six recorded sales are single story.

Crown Ridge Court carries two of the six sales; Dawn Meadow Street, Collingswood Court, Golf Course Drive and the upper end of Rayburn Street one each. The lots run from about 1.6 to 2.6 acres, median about 2.2, on the ridge with the club below and the open space behind, and the view is the constant.

The first reason is the ridge: two acres with the club below and the view across the Conejo Valley, which the gated community does not improve on. The second is the fee, a few hundred dollars a quarter rather than the guard gate’s thousands. The third is the range: a 1991 house at $3,250,000 or a new one at $11,000,000 on the same street. The fourth is the land itself for a buyer who wants to build.

Listings report the fee at $120–$144 a month and $518 a quarter; the most recent sale, in July 2026, reported $518 a quarter (about $173 a month). The fee carries the greenbelt and the common landscaping, and an architectural review of new construction and exteriors. There is no guard gate; that is the difference in fee between High Country and Country Club Estates.

What the association covers and what the CC&Rs restrict is not confirmed in any source Gary Jacobs has been able to verify. Take the budget, the reserve study, the insurance certificate and the CC&Rs from the seller’s disclosure package, read the minutes for any special assessment or litigation, and confirm the current fee with the manager before removing a contingency.

North Ranch is inside the City of Thousand Oaks and the Conejo Valley Unified district: Westlake Hills Elementary, Colina Middle School and Westlake High School are the assignments listings give for these streets. Confirm the exact address with the district locator, since the elementary boundary is not the tract boundary.

The North Ranch Country Club is below the ridge, and the North Ranch Center at Kanan Road and Lindero Canyon Road is five minutes away for groceries and errands. The open-space trails begin behind the tract. North Ranch is the country-club side of Westlake Village: the North Ranch Country Club and its courses in the middle, the North Ranch Center shopping at Kanan Road and Lindero Canyon Road for groceries, coffee and errands, the open-space trails up the hillsides behind the tracts, and the lake, the Landing and the Westlake Village Inn ten minutes down Westlake Boulevard or Lindero Canyon Road. The Ventura Freeway is ten minutes from most streets by either road, and the drive to the Westside is the same forty minutes to ninety it is from anywhere in the Conejo Valley.

Kanan Road runs south to the Ventura Freeway at the Agoura Hills interchange in about eight minutes. Errands are at the North Ranch Center; the Westside is forty minutes on a good day and ninety on a bad one.

The figures in this section were current when this guide was last reviewed. The sale record in the facts above and the listings below are drawn live from the MLS each time the page loads.

In the two years through September 2026, three homes in the tract sold through the MLS, at prices from $3,500,000 to $8,250,000 and a median of $4,100,000. Going back to August 2020, six sales are on record, from $3,250,000 to $11,150,000 with a median of $3,800,000. The top of the record is $11,150,000 on Dawn Meadow Street in April 2024 for a 11,000-square-foot six-bedroom; $8,250,000 on Collingswood Court in October 2024 for an 8,355-square-foot six-bedroom. The bottom is $3,250,000 on Crown Ridge Court in April 2023. Single-story homes account for two of the six sales, at a median of $7,625,000.

Six sales in six years across a range this wide is a set of individual transactions rather than a trend. What the record supports is a floor near $3,250,000 for a 1991 house on two acres and a top above $11,000,000 for a new one, with the price of the land and the view roughly constant and the price of the house the variable. Gary Jacobs keeps the full sale-by-sale history and can say where a given estate sits in it.

No lease is recorded in the MLS sources this guide draws on, so it does not quote a rent. Estate leasing here is occasional and private.

These homes date from 1991 to 2024, and the inspection carries the 1990s list: original systems at end of life, tile-roof underlayment approaching the end of its span, failed dual-pane seals, and for 1990 to 1994 the possibility of polybutylene supply lines. Slope lots add drainage and retaining-wall questions that a general inspector will flag but a geotechnical engineer should answer; pools of this age often have original equipment and plaster. None of this is unusual; all of it is negotiable if it is found before the contingency comes off rather than after.

In a tract of this era the remodels that return their cost are the ones that bring a 1990s plan to the way people live now: the kitchen opened to the family room, the primary bath and closet, the floors and the glass, and, on the right lot, the pool. What does not return its cost is the addition that pushes the house past what the street will support; the record shows the top sales are renovated versions of the original plans on the better lots, not the biggest houses.

The comparison is Country Club Estates, the guard-gated estate community across the club, and the custom streets. Country Club Estates, 1988 to 2013, is 5,372- to 16,702-square-foot houses on one to ten acres at a median of $5,325,000 with dues of $1,850 to $2,950 a quarter for the guard gate. North Ranch Custom, the individually built houses on the older streets, is 2,752- to 9,459-square-foot houses on half an acre at a median of $3,000,000. Hidden Valley Estates, off Potrero Road, is 4,760- to 6,798-square-foot houses on two acres behind a gate at a median of $3,550,000. High Country trades below Country Club Estates at the median for the same acreage, because it has no guard gate, and the 2024 sales show what a new house on the ridge commands.

Start with the parcel: the title report for easements, the county for fire mapping and any geologic hazard overlay, and an insurance quote early, because ridge-top acreage prices differently. Then the house, individually built and individually inspected, with a geotechnical engineer on the slope and the pool and outbuildings checked against the permit history; for a 1991 house, ask about polybutylene supply lines by name. Then the association package for the architectural rules if a rebuild is the plan. Then patience: six sales in six years.

Estate buyers first, comparing the ridge with Country Club Estates and choosing the view and the lower fee over the guard gate. Builders second, for the older houses on the best lots. Owners moving up within North Ranch third.

For a buyer, start with the title report and the county record for the parcel, and brief the inspector for a custom house of its year on ridge-top acreage. Pull the permit history of the house, the pool and every outbuilding from the county. Confirm the school assignment for the exact address.

For a seller, there is no plan comparable; the comparable is the parcel and the house together, and the top of the record — $11,150,000 — is a new house on two and a half acres. Price to the parcel and the age of the house, say the acreage and the view in the first lines of the listing, and let the condition argue for the top of the band.